The Beauty and the Brain

Chapter 61

Gavin pursed his lips and said, “Your Ms. Spence is so precious…”

Dennis said, “The treatment is over, and you can go now.”

Gavin was speechless.

Gavin sat on the sofa and almost cried out, “Dennis Whitney! I’ve been your friend for so many years!

You drove me away for a woman! No! How old is she? She’s not a woman at all!”

Now it was Marie’s turn to be speechless.

Dennis rubbed the corners of his forehead, “What do you want?”

Gavin immediately said, “Clayton is back. Shall we go out for a drink?”

Dennis looked at Marie sitting on the sofa and said, “Some other day.”

Gavin got anxious and said, “What for? We have made an appointment, and Clayton may leave any

day. Today it is! Are we going or not?”

Dennis sat on the sofa and said leisurely, “No.”

Knowing well what he was thinking, Gavin had to say, “You are afraid that Ms. Spence will be bored. at

home alone, aren’t you? Bring her along! Sooner or later, she will be known as your wife!”

Marie was speechless.

Dennis turned to look at her and asked, “Do you want to go? Like Gavin, Clayton Philemon is also my

friend and has been developing in France.”

Gavin leaned over and said, “Marie, just come! Clayton is always flying around. It’s not easy for us

to meet him!”

“Go ahead then,” said Marie, being persuaded.

Dennis went to her room to get her a coat and let her put it on. Then, he took a pair of cotton slippers.

and put them on her feet. He bent down to pick her up horizontally and said, “Gavin, lock the door and

go get the car.”

Gavin was speechless.

So why did he have to go with these two? To highlight the fact that he was single?

Marie struggled and said, “Well, I can walk by myself…”

Dennis glanced at her and carried her into the elevator, saying, “Be good and don’t move.”

Marie could only obediently nestle in Dennis’ arms. Although she was 5-foot-6-inch tall, she

always looked like a small doll beside Dennis.

Gavin stopped the car in front of the house. Dennis put Marie in the back seat before getting in and

said, “Let’s go.”

Gavin sat alone in the driver’s seat and was speechless. So he was a personal driver now, right?

The car stopped in front of a high-end clubhouse. Dennis got out of the car with Marie in his arms,

and Gavin threw the car key to the doorman. Then he walked over to Dennis and asked with a smile,

“Dennis, are you going to carry her upstairs like this?”

Dennis didn’t look at him and said, “What? Are you jealous?”

Gavin was speechless.

Humph!

As they strode into the clubhouse, Gavin and Dennis attracted the attention of the crowd due to

their extraordinary presence, which made Marie lower her head even more. How embarrassing…

Someone came up to greet Gavin, “Mr. Hart, I haven’t seen you for a long time. Where have you.

been?”

Gavin was furious after being retorted by Dennis. He waved his hand and said, “Get away. I have an

appointment today!”

Gavin went upstairs and pushed open the door of the room, and Dennis walked in with Marie in his

arms.

Someone kidded, “Mr. Whitney even brought a doll out?”

Gavin sat down next to the man, took a gulp of wine, and said, “You guys can judge for me. I kindly

asked him out to welcome Clayton, but he didn’t want to!”

The man said cheerily, “Then this is big news. Let me see what a gorgeous beauty Mr. Whitney is

protecting.”

The man poked his head over, and Dennis carefully placed Marie on the sofa and said, “Just ignore

them. If you don’t want to stay here, we’ll go back.”

Marie nodded and glanced up at the man who had just spoken. He looked a bit similar to Dennis.

The man had alluring eyes and said with a smile, “Hello, my name is Andres Robert, Mr. Whitney’s

cousin.”

Marie glanced at Dennis with an is-this-fool-your-cousin look.

Dennis nodded in acknowledgment.

Marie nodded with a smile and said, “Hello, my name is Marie Spence.”

Gavin pursed his lips and said, “Why aren’t you saying anything, Clayton?”

Only then did Marie see another man sitting in the dark corner.

Wearing a dark suit, he straightened up with a cold presence. Even Dennis seemed gentler when

compared with him.

Clayton stared straight at Marie, which startled her. She seemed to have seen this person before.

To be precise, she had seen him when she was Rose.

Furrowing her brows, Marie tried to recall every mission in the past. Where exactly have I seen

Clayton?

Seeing that she didn’t say anything, Dennis turned his head and asked, “What’s wrong?”

Marie shook her head and said, “It’s okay. It’s a little stuffy.”

Dennis found a bottle of fruit wine and poured a glass of it for Marie, then he turned to chat with

others.

Marie knocked on her head and saw Clayton picking up the red wine on the table and taking a sip.

Suddenly, she remembered that two years ago at the costume party, two men in black suits stood in

the crowd, aristocratic and imposing.

Even Marie, who wore a mask to the party for a mission, couldn’t help but take a few more glances

at them.

One of the men was Clayton.

She clearly remembered that Clayton picked up his wine glass, took a sip, and chatted with the man

next to him.

And that man… was wearing a black half-face mask… revealing his sexy thin lips…

With a loud clang, the wine in Marie’s hand fell on the table, making a deafening sound. © 2024 Nôv/el/Dram/a.Org.

Her memory couldn’t be wrong. The man wearing the mask was Dennis!

Therefore, two years ago, on that stormy party night in France, she was so close to Dennis that she

used her mask to cover her face, raised her glass, and smiled at the two noble men.

Her tears fell uncontrollably, and she didn’t even dare to think about how she would be able to live with

him comfortably in the same house, after she had met Dennis as a killer at that time!

Marie made so loud a sound that Dennis looked back at her and asked, “What’s wrong, Marie?”

Marie raised her head abruptly and met Clayton’s scrutinizing gaze. Tears welled up in her eyes,

and her voice trembled, “My… My feet hurt…”

Dennis took off her slippers and checked the burn on her feet.

Andres, who was standing beside him, smiled and said, “Isn’t Mr. Whitney not interested in women?

Ms. Spence is quite capable, isn’t she?”

Gavin chuckled and roasted beside them, but Marie’s ears were buzzing. She could only see Dennis’s

perfect side profile, and Clayton’s sharp eyes were in her mind.

She was wearing a mask, so Clayton probably didn’t recognize her. But why was he staring at her?

With her head lowered, tears rolled down Marie’s cheeks. She was too scared, being afraid that her

identity would be exposed, and that others would know that she was a freak who came back from

the dead, and…

She was afraid that Dennis would look at her with a different expression from now…

Dennis looked up and saw that Marie’s face was already covered with tears. Gavin came over and

said, “Really? It’s just a burn. It’s nothing serious…”

Dennis called with a cold face, “Cullen, come pick me up at Night.”

Gavin was shocked and said, “You’re leaving now?”

Dennis sat down to help Marie put on her shoes, saying, “Or what? Can’t you see that she’s in pain?”

Seeing that Marie’s tears were like a flood, Gavin had no idea, and Andres said, “Let Mr. Whitney take

Ms. Spence back first. Mr. Philemon is not in a hurry to leave. Let’s go on drinking.”

Dennis picked Marie up and turned to nod at Clayton, “I’m sorry. I’ll treat you to dinner another

day.”

Suddenly, Clayton stood up and walked over to Dennis, saying, “Let’s meet tomorrow. Since Ms.

Spence is not feeling well, let’s have a gathering at your house tomorrow. I’ll bring some wine.”

Gavin smiled and said, “Okay, let’s meet at Dennis’s house tomorrow!”

Clayton didn’t say anything more and glanced at Marie faintly. The latter buried her head in Dennis’s

arms without saying a word.

Thinking that she was in severe pain, Dennis said, “Okay, I’m leaving.”

Andres opened the door and Dennis strode out with Marie in his arms.

Clayton turned to Gavin and asked, “Where did Ms. Spence come from?”

Gavin asked vaguely with fruit in his mouth, “What do you mean?”

Clayton asked, “Where did Dennis get to know her?”

Gavin put down the food and said, “Ah, you’re asking about this. Marie is the third daughter of the

Spence family of Las Vegas. Dennis went to Las Vegas to celebrate Old Mr. Spence’s birthday, and

they met.”

Andres leaned over and asked, “Ms. Spence looks quite young.

Gavin seemed to have found a topic. “What do you think? Marie just turned 18, and she’s still in

college! Tsk tsk tsk, your cousin is robbing the cradle…”

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Looking at the two idiots chattering together, Clayton sat in the corner of the sofa and drank red wine.

He remembered the look that Marie gave him just now. That look was so familiar.

He couldn’t have made a mistake. He must have seen that alert, resourceful, and seductive look.

But the problem was that he had never been to Las Vegas.

Dennis carried Marie into the car, and Cullen immediately drove back to Glorious Estate.

Dennis carried her back to the room and sat down, then he took out the burn cream and carefully

applied it again.

Seeing tears all over Marie’s face, Dennis went soft. He hugged her in his arms and comforted her,

“Does it hurt much? Be good, Marie. Do not cry.”

Marie pushed Dennis away, lie down on the bed, and said with the quilt over her head, “Go back. I’m

going to sleep.”

Dennis sat on the edge of the bed and asked, “Marie, what’s wrong?”

“It’s okay. I just have a pain in my feet.” Marie said in a muffled voice.

“Marie, don’t coop yourself up,” Dennis said.

“I’m going to sleep! Get out!” Marie’s voice became louder.

Dennis rubbed the corner of his forehead. He could feel that Marie was bothered by something else.

She was not a girl who would cry like this because of the pain in her feet.

But he had no idea why she was unhappy.

Dennis was a little annoyed and asked, “Marie, what’s the matter?”

“I’m fine,” said Marie as she tucked herself in.

Again, Dennis was by her side every time she was emotionally unstable, but every time she only

wrapped herself up, pushed him far away, and said loudly that she was fine.

Dennis had enough of the phrase “I’m fine”, which made him feel that the Marie he knew would always

be the lively and clever little girl on the surface, but he could never know and touch the real

He was getting a little angry.

“Marie! Come out and talk to me!” Dennis ordered in a deep voice.

“I don’t want to talk. I want to sleep!” Marie mumbled under the covers.

Dennis looked at the bulging quilt and felt his temples throbbing with anger. He said in a deep voice, “I’ll

give you one last chance to come out and have a good talk with me!”

Marie didn’t move a muscle under the covers, and Dennis slammed the door angrily and left.

Hearing the sound of the door slamming shut, Marie lifted the quilt to get some fresh air, went to the

bathroom to wash her face, and went back to bed.

She didn’t want to face Dennis, and she hadn’t figured out what identity she should use to face him.”